There aren't many tunnels on the Southern Plains, but Tucumcari has one, just east of town. It was built to give the Chicago Rock Island & Pacific Railroad a way out of town, once Interstate Forty was built over its right of way. You can argue that it's an underpass, but the length of the thing, going under the road at an oblique angle, makes it more like a tunnel than not.
Legend has it that the Rock Island went belly-up the day after the tunnel was opened and only one train ever officially used it.
See also:
The Rock Island Rail Trail
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